Chapter Summaries

Four hundred years after leaving his courtyard, Yi Xuan returned and reunited with Mu Anqing and Ning Yun as the crisis began. He announced the Heavenly Dog’s stomach wall was nearing its limit and broadcast the Dyson Sphere and Stars' Assistance Plan to the world, leaving everyone waiting for his order to attack.

• Yi Xuan returned to his old courtyard and found it had been carefully cleaned for years.
• Mu Anqing and Ning Yun arrived, recognized Yi Xuan, and reunited with him after four hundred years apart.
• Yi Xuan told the two women that the crisis had already begun and invited them to witness the end of the era with him.
• No. 01 took over screens around the world and displayed the interstellar fleet, the Stars' Assistance project, and the Dyson Sphere.
• Yi Xuan announced that the Heavenly Dog’s stomach wall was nearing its limit, and people watched the broadcast as they awaited his final order.

Yi Xuan activated the Stars' Assistance Plan and the Dyson Sphere to combine the Power of the Stars with solar energy inside the Heavenly Dog. The resulting explosion tore an expanding hole through the Heavenly Dog's stomach wall, and No. 01's simulation predicted that the creature would die as the world celebrated.

• No. 01 reported that the Heavenly Dog's stomach wall was nearing its limit as an asteroid vanished inside it.
• Yi Xuan activated the Stars' Assistance Plan, and satellites assembled into two enormous shells bearing the Grand Star Formation.
• The formations gathered the Power of the Stars, while Yi Xuan ordered No. 01 to prepare the Dyson Sphere.
• The Dyson Sphere directed accumulated solar energy into the Power of the Stars as it passed through the Heavenly Dog, triggering a massive explosion inside its stomach wall.
• The blast opened an expanding hole in the Heavenly Dog, and No. 01 predicted it would die, prompting people around the world to celebrate.

With the Heavenly Dog crisis fading, Yi Xuan kept monitoring it while sending vanguard teams into the newly opened void to explore the universe, ushering in the Mother Planet’s age of interstellar exploration. He ended the Vacation Plan and cultivation resumed, leaving cultivators to pursue ascension in a more scientific system where resources remained the crucial limit.

• Yi Xuan announced that the Heavenly Dog crisis was over and estimated the Heavenly Dog would disappear within a hundred years.
• After a month of celebrations, Yi Xuan increased surveillance of the Heavenly Dog and sent space fleet vanguard teams through the void to explore beyond it.
• Civilian adventurers formed expedition groups and followed the vanguard teams into the empty space, beginning the Mother Planet’s age of interstellar exploration.
• Yi Xuan ended the Vacation Plan, and immortal cultivators began preparing to transcend tribulations and become immortals.
• The Cultivation Assistance System made cultivation and Loose Immortal Tribulations more measurable, but access to resources remained the key factor in cultivators’ progress.

Ten years after the Vacation Plan ended, Yi Xuan helped the Mother Planet’s newly ascended immortals prepare to investigate the Immortal Realm. When the vanguard was destroyed by the same dissolution associated with the Heavenly Dog, everyone wondered whether the apocalypse had truly ended.

• Over a hundred cultivators ascended within ten years, and Yi Xuan built them a space fortress and supported their immortal cultivation.
• Five years later, Yi Xuan visited the fortress, where Xiao Anhe, Supreme Elder Li, and the Old Supreme Elder waited for news from an exploration vanguard.
• Yi Xuan showed the immortals the vanguard’s live footage as its fleet approached the Immortal Realm.
• The screen went black, and No. 01 reported that the entire vanguard had been wiped out and could not be contacted.
• Yi Xuan watched the final footage reveal that the vanguard had dissolved, then saw the immortals’ grim faces as they questioned whether the apocalypse had ended.

After the advance team vanished in a way that resembled the Heavenly Dog’s stomach wall, Yi Xuan and his technical experts struggled to find a way to stop a possible second layer. Videos of the disaster spread across the Mother Planet, leaving the public convinced that no solution remained.

• Yi Xuan discovered that the hole in the Heavenly Dog’s stomach wall was still expanding and warned the immortals to postpone entering the Immortal Realm.
• Xiao Anhe and the Azure Cloud Sect’s supreme elders admitted they could not explain what had happened as Yi Xuan departed.
• Aboard the Dawn, Liang Shi confirmed that the force that dissolved the advance team appeared to be the Heavenly Dog’s stomach wall.
• Yi Xuan told his experts to prepare for the possibility of another Heavenly Dog, but they could not agree on a workable plan before time ran out.
• Adventurers uploaded footage of the advance team’s disappearance, and unprecedented panic swept across the Mother Planet.

As the renewed Heavenly Dog crisis plunged the Mother Planet into chaos, Yi Xuan and his experts struggled to find a solution. Liang Shi proposed the Bullet Plan to penetrate multiple layers of stomach wall, and the chapter ended with someone claiming they had the bullet they needed.

• The announcement of the Heavenly Dog crisis drove people on the Mother Planet into despair, anxiety, and violence, while the Global Security System hesitated to intervene because of the population’s circumstances.
• Yi Xuan and his experts spent three days discussing the crisis but failed to find a practical solution.
• Liang Shi suggested the stomach walls discovered by the advance party might belong to the original Heavenly Dog and warned that it could have many layers.
• Liang Shi demonstrated his Bullet Plan by firing through a stack of paper, but admitted he did not know how to make it work against the Heavenly Dog.
• As the group dismissed the plan, an unidentified voice declared that they had a bullet.

Yi Xuan proposed using the sun’s power to propel the Mother Planet through the Heavenly Dog and escape, reviving his abandoned Billiards Plan as the Detonating the Sun plan. After Niu Keli judged it feasible, Yi Xuan went to Venerable Yuan to choose a destination in the Immortal Realm, and Venerable Yuan began considering the problem.

• Yi Xuan explained that his Billiards Plan would use a collision’s force to send the Mother Planet through the Heavenly Dog, but that they had lacked the power to carry it out.
• Yi Xuan pointed to the sun and proposed using the Dyson Sphere to detonate it and propel the Mother Planet.
• Niu Keli calculated that the plan was feasible, and Yi Xuan assigned the others to work out its details.
• Yi Xuan went to Venerable Yuan, who asked what was happening, and Yi Xuan told him the whole story.
• Venerable Yuan considered the Immortal Realm as Yi Xuan sought his help choosing the Mother Planet’s destination.

Venerable Yuan showed Yi Xuan an Immortal Script map and explained that their Immortal Realm was a Lesser Immortal Realm within a much larger hierarchy. He pointed to the center of their Lesser Immortal Realm as a possible future destination for the Mother Planet.

• Venerable Yuan searched his private library and found a beast hide marked with Immortal Script.
• Venerable Yuan used Immortal Qi to activate the hide, revealing a three-dimensional star domain map.
• Venerable Yuan showed Yi Xuan that their Immortal Realm was a Lesser Immortal Realm, while Middle and Greater Immortal Realms contained vast numbers of realms above it.
• Yi Xuan set aside his shock at the Immortal Realm's scale and focused on finding a future destination for the Mother Planet.
• Venerable Yuan pointed toward the center of their Lesser Immortal Realm and asked Yi Xuan if it would work.

Yi Xuan learned that the Immortal Realm might still be fighting the Demon Race and that the Immortal Court was the safest destination for the Bullet Plan. When the enormous distance seemed to make the plan impossible, Niu Keli completed his calculations and declared they could reach it.

• Venerable Yuan explained that the Mother Planet lay at the edge of the Ziwei Domain and that the Heavenly Dog's presence suggested the Immortal Realm's defenses had failed.
• Yi Xuan and Venerable Yuan concluded that the Demon Race might still be waging war across the Immortal Realm, and No. 01 estimated their deduction was ninety-five percent likely to be correct.
• Yi Xuan returned to the Dawn with the Immortal Court's coordinates, leaving the team shocked by the distance of more than fifty thousand light-years.
• Niu Keli worked through a day and night of calculations with No. 01's assistance while the others watched.
• Niu Keli finished sixty-eight pages of calculations, stood up excitedly, and declared that they could reach the destination.

Niu Keli showed that the Bullet Plan could use successive solar detonations, including artificial suns, to propel the Mother Planet, but Liang Shi raised the danger to humanity at extreme speeds. Yi Xuan revealed that people could be moved into the former secret realms, now research and development centers, before the planet’s journey.

• Niu Keli explained calculations showing that detonating the sun alone could not accelerate the Mother Planet to its destination.
• Niu Keli presented a multistage propulsion plan using artificial suns, and the experts concluded it was theoretically possible.
• Yi Xuan announced that the Bullet Plan had officially begun.
• Liang Shi warned that humanity might not survive the Mother Planet’s extreme acceleration.
• Yi Xuan displayed a register of the research and development centers and revealed they were converted secret realms where humanity could take shelter.

Yi Xuan ordered experts to recalculate the Bullet Plan’s maximum speed and energy needs while he addressed the riots caused by the news that the Heavenly Dog still threatened the Mother Planet. After a half-hour warning, the Global Security System carried out a massacre against those who continued to threaten public safety, leaving Yi Xuan viewed as a ruthless monster.

• Yi Xuan assigned specialists to work with Niu Keli on calculating and simulating the Bullet Plan’s maximum speed and energy requirements.
• Yi Xuan activated the Global Security System and announced to the Mother Planet that the Heavenly Dog had not been eliminated and the apocalyptic crisis remained.
• Yi Xuan warned that a solution existed and threatened devastating strikes against anyone who continued to endanger the world after a half-hour countdown.
• Many people returned home, but others ignored Yi Xuan’s warning and continued rioting.
• After the countdown, the Global Security System began a massacre that killed five percent of the world’s population, and people saw Yi Xuan as a ruthless monster.

Yi Xuan began the Bullet Plan, expanding the computing effort and starting work on the Dyson Sphere and artificial suns as Mother Planet’s deadline drew closer. Niu Keli proposed using the moon as the foundation for a single giant artificial sun, while the Secret Realm Renovation Plan began to prepare for humanity’s long journey.

• After Niu Keli produced the data, Yi Xuan ordered more quantum supercomputers to speed No. 01’s simulations and began the Bullet Plan with an added ten percent energy margin.
• Yi Xuan committed almost the entire space fleet to improving the Dyson Sphere, but the plan ran short of resources for two 1,500-kilometer artificial suns.
• Niu Keli proposed replacing the three-stage boost plan with two stages and using the moon as the foundation for one giant artificial sun.
• Yi Xuan and the researchers began renovating the secret realms to house humanity for the journey, despite the severe lack of space.
• After the living conditions were announced, almost everyone accepted them, and the Secret Realm Renovation Plan got underway.

As the Heavenly Dog crisis continued, Yi Xuan repurposed the Stars' Assistance Plan satellites to reinforce Mother Planet for the Bullet Plan and replaced the secret realms’ living quarters with cryogenic pods. After humanity entered hibernation for the 52,421-year journey, Yi Xuan remained awake in a virtual environment to study technology.

• Yi Xuan began recovering the Stars' Assistance Plan satellites and had them melted down into metal frameworks deep inside Mother Planet to strengthen it for the Bullet Plan.
• After more than a million simulations, No. 01 refined the Bullet Plan, and the preparations for the Dyson Sphere, the moon, Mother Planet, and the secret realms finished ahead of schedule.
• Yi Xuan scrapped the secret realms’ cramped living quarters and installed cryogenic pods so humanity would sleep through the long journey to a new home.
• People, cultivators, the three grand elders of the Azure Cloud Sect, and Niu Keli entered cryogenic sleep; Niu Keli had devoted fifty years to the Bullet Plan.
• Yi Xuan entered a hibernation pod in No. 1 Secret Realm and connected to a virtual environment, where he planned to spend fifty thousand years studying the Book of Technology.

Yi Xuan entered the virtual space created by the brain-computer interface and discovered its capabilities and limitations while No. 01 prepared the Bullet Plan. The Mother Planet escaped the Heavenly Dog by using the sun’s destruction to accelerate to near-light speed, leaving the enraged beast behind.

• Yi Xuan entered a newly appeared door in his Sea of Consciousness and found that he could create anything he imagined in the virtual space.
• Yi Xuan discovered that the space could not materialize technology beyond its knowledge, and his attempt to create a dual-vector foil nearly caused it to collapse.
• No. 01 confirmed that Yi Xuan’s body was safe in the hibernation pod and had begun autonomous cultivation, then focused on the Bullet Plan.
• The Dyson Sphere was destroyed as the sun collapsed, releasing energy that propelled the Mother Planet away from the star system.
• The artificial sun made from the moon detonated to complete the second-stage propulsion, and the Mother Planet broke through the Heavenly Dog’s stomach wall at near-light speed.
• The Mother Planet sped toward its destination while the furious Heavenly Dog was left behind, venting its rage across the starry sky.

Yi Xuan endured ten thousand years of isolation during the Mother Planet’s journey, losing his ability to speak as he devoted himself to scientific research. When the Good Corpse interrupted him to show off an invention, the Good and Evil Corpses began arguing, briefly easing Yi Xuan’s loneliness.

• Yi Xuan and Niu Keli’s team planned the Mother Planet’s route and installed Force Field Controllers to protect it from small celestial bodies.
• After the sun’s destruction severed communications, Yi Xuan remained in the secret realm and waited for underground devices to contact him.
• During ten thousand years of solitude, Yi Xuan immersed himself in research but often wept, while his original, Good Corpse, and Evil Corpse developed increasingly extreme personalities.
• The Good Corpse interrupted Yi Xuan’s research to show him an invention, but Yi Xuan could no longer speak after his long silence.
• The Evil Corpse threatened the Good Corpse, who taunted him to attack, and Yi Xuan silently watched their argument with interest.

Yi Xuan inspected the Good Corpse’s new biological computer, which outperformed a quantum computer and resisted electromagnetic radiation. After Yi Xuan ordered further development, No. 01 signaled that equipment beneath the Mother Planet had activated, indicating the Bullet Plan was nearing its destination.

• The Good Corpse summoned Liang Shi in virtual space, but Yi Xuan dispersed the manifestation and demanded to see his latest creation.
• The Good Corpse unveiled a biological computer made from biological materials and shaped like an enormous human brain.
• The Good Corpse demonstrated that the biological computer performed better than a quantum computer, and Yi Xuan ordered him to combine it with quantum computing.
• Yi Xuan entered the laboratory, where No. 01 reported that equipment beneath the Mother Planet had activated as the planet slowed near its destination.

After fifty years of research, Yi Xuan and his Good and Evil Corpses learned that the Mother Planet had arrived, ending their fifty-thousand-year journey through solitude. Yi Xuan hoped he could return to a normal life, though he knew his long isolation could not simply be undone.

• The Good Corpse showed Yi Xuan and the Evil Corpse his biological-quantum computer, and Yi Xuan ordered him to change its human-brain shape.
• Yi Xuan stopped and stared at the sky, alarming the Good Corpse and drawing the Evil Corpse to his side.
• Yi Xuan told the Good and Evil Corpses that the Mother Planet had arrived.
• The Good and Evil Corpses embraced Yi Xuan, and all three cried with joy over the end of their fifty-thousand-year journey.

After reaching their destination, Yi Xuan confirmed the Mother Planet had survived but was badly damaged and began organizing repairs. An enormous, unexpected star had captured the planet, and Venerable Yuan believed the Immortal Court lay beyond a nearby asteroid belt.

• Yi Xuan ordered No. 01 to connect with the Mother Planet and learned it was damaged but still supporting more than a thousand secret realms.
• Yi Xuan sent warships from the ten highest-numbered secret realms to explore, and No. 01 reported that a star had captured the Mother Planet and set it orbiting and rotating.
• No. 01 discovered the star was 2.6 billion kilometers in diameter, leaving Yi Xuan baffled that Niu Keli's team had missed it.
• Yi Xuan ordered the fleets to gather plentiful nearby resources, but No. 01's expanded search still could not locate the Immortal Court.
• After awakening Venerable Yuan and waiting half a month for him to recover, Yi Xuan heard him say the Immortal Court should be beyond the asteroid belt.

Yi Xuan and Venerable Yuan approached the region where the Immortal Court was supposed to be, but No. 01 found no sign of it beyond the asteroid belt. They discovered Immortal Script carved into asteroids, and Venerable Yuan realized that the asteroid belt itself was the Immortal Court.

• Yi Xuan told Venerable Yuan through voice transmission that he had lost the ability to speak, and reasoned that his unusual cultivation had left his heart undeveloped.
• Yi Xuan and Venerable Yuan spent two months traveling through space while Yi Xuan worked on technology and Venerable Yuan cultivated.
• At the asteroid belt, No. 01 reported that it could find no sign of the Immortal Court beyond it, but Venerable Yuan insisted the Court was there.
• Venerable Yuan spotted an asteroid bearing Immortal Script, and No. 01 projected more asteroids marked with different characters.
• When an asteroid bearing the character “cherish” appeared, Venerable Yuan collapsed, then declared that the asteroid belt was the Immortal Court.

Yi Xuan stopped Venerable Yuan from attacking No. 01 after its scans revealed that the asteroid belt was the shattered remains of the Immortal Court. Venerable Yuan recovered, while Yi Xuan explained the harsh inequalities of the Immortal Realm and the Immortal Ascension Pool's value to grassroots immortals.

• Venerable Yuan realized the asteroid belt was made from the destroyed Immortal Court and despaired over its unknown fate.
• Venerable Yuan tried to stop No. 01's search, but Yi Xuan restrained him with Divine Sense and calmed him down.
• Venerable Yuan apologized to Yi Xuan after regaining his composure.
• Yi Xuan explained that grassroots immortals sought the Immortal Ascension Pool because it could improve their Spirit Roots and help them compete with immortal descendants.
• Yi Xuan noted that lower-realm tests could mistake Immortal Spirit Roots for Ninth-Grade Mortal Roots, and that talented ascendants could attract powerful factions.
• Yi Xuan contrasted technology's potential for a comfortable life with cultivation's brutal competition, leaving the Immortal Realm depicted as harsher than the mortal world.